Solutions Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of solution architecture from the initial discovery phase to production, which includes technical designs, transition plans, and providing engineering guidance.

• Create architectures for React portals, embeddable widgets, .NET microservices, APIs, data pipelines, and databases.

• Design AWS solutions utilizing EKS, Lambda, ECS, S3, and Step Functions.

• Keep architecture documentation updated, including diagrams, API/event contracts, and non-functional requirements.

• Facilitate secure integrations with embedded finance providers, partners, identity services, and enterprise systems.

• Establish patterns for service boundaries, APIs, event-driven processing, resilience, auditability, and provider onboarding.

• Identify technical risks and inter-team dependencies while developing mitigation strategies.

• Collaborate with platform engineering teams on Terraform/Pulumi, Kubernetes, CI/CD, environment strategy, secrets management, and release controls.

• Promote secure design practices using IAM, encryption, key/secret management, TLS/certificate management, network segmentation, least privilege principles, and secure development methodologies.

• Set observability standards and lead reviews on performance, resilience, and production readiness.

• Mentor engineers, resolve inter-team decisions, and communicate technical trade-offs to stakeholders.

• Work closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to produce secure, scalable, and reliable solutions for an embedded finance orchestration platform.

• Progress through the stages of recruiter introduction calls, internal interviews, client interviews, and offer negotiations.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including at least 5 years in a Solutions Architect role.

• Extensive hands-on experience with C#, ASP.NET, and .NET Core.

• Strong hands-on experience in AWS architecture, delivering secure, production-grade distributed systems.

• Substantial experience with microservices, REST APIs, asynchronous/event-driven patterns, and enterprise integrations.

• Familiarity with React-based architecture, micro-frontends or embeddable components, and browser security.

• Proficient in PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB), covering data modeling, performance, and migrations.

• Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, and automated release management.

• Capacity to define non-functional requirements related to availability, scalability, performance, recoverability, security, privacy, and supportability.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical decisions and influence cross-functional teams and external partners.

• Valid U.S. visa and capability to travel to the U.S. for onboarding and knowledge transfer.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification is a plus.

• Background in payments, financial services, embedded finance, lending, BaaS, or regulated platforms is preferred.

• Experience with Akamai, AWS KMS/ACM, Argo CD, Snowflake, SFTP/file integrations, and enterprise identity/SSO is advantageous.

• Familiarity with pluggable provider architectures, white-label portals, embeddable widgets, or multi-tenant platforms is a plus.

• Knowledge of architecture governance, threat modeling, PCI-related controls, privacy requirements, and audit evidence is desirable.

• CV must be submitted in English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Contractor engagement.

• Remote-first work arrangement.

• Opportunity to collaborate with a global team operating across 55+ countries and five continents.

• Take charge of the end-to-end architecture of a growing embedded finance platform.

• Influence reusable architecture patterns that support new products and provider integrations.

• Lead critical architectural decisions across teams with engineering and technical leadership.